On 2010-09-02 00:49, Paul Johnson wrote:
When you want to compare floating point numbers, check that their
difference is less than some appropriately small delta:
$delta = 1e-8;
if (abs($a - $b)< $delta) # numbers are "equal"
Why call it delta when you can call it epsilon?
;)
It also has no 'my', why is that?
And OP should read at least one of these:
http://docs.sun.com/source/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_point
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/28/14/29/PDF/floating-point-article.pdf
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Ruud
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